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- Subject: Re: WANTED: News reader for windows
- Message-ID: <hippo.11.0@sonoma.edu>
- From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:46:37 PDT
- References: <6881@stan.xx.swin.oz.au>
- Organization: Sonoma state university
- Keywords: NNTP Windows 3.1
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hippo.sonoma.edu
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- In article <6881@stan.xx.swin.oz.au> h8eg064@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Adnaan Gierdien) writes:
- >Subject: WANTED: News reader for windows
- >From: h8eg064@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Adnaan Gierdien)
- >Date: 21 Aug 92 12:28:36 GMT
- >Keywords: NNTP Windows 3.1
- >Hello. This is probably a FAQ but I've been through the common
- >msdos archive sites and can't find what I'm looking for.
- >
- >I'm after a newsreader for windows 3.x, something like nn or vn
- >that uses a NNTP server to connect to.
- >
- >I'm allready using a PD program called 'winvn' which actually wasnt
- >written for windows 3.x at all but seems to work. Its only limitation
- >is it isnt complete. One feature I do like is that it assumes you are
- >allready connected to a NNTP server ( having done something like
- >'telnet host 119' ). From there it just takes over and feeds the output
- >from the nntp server to the program.
- >
- >Does there exist a program similar to this ?? or is there an updated
- >version of winvn?
- >
- >Thanks in advance
- >Adnaan
- >ps. email preferred.
- >--
- >Adnaan Gierdien
- >h8eg064@stan.xx.swin.oz.au
- >Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia.
- Try WinQVTNet It has a nice News Reader
-